VGMdb surpasses J.G.M.L. in album count
For quite a long time, the most comprehensive database of VGM albums was Japan Game Music Library, or J.G.M.L. The Japanese-language resource catalogs a whopping 7,243 albums, and is most impressively maintained by a single person, Fumiaki Kosiro.
On March 16, album number 7,244 was added to VGMdb, a five-track Legend of Zelda series fan arrangement CD, The Legend of Zelda EP, arranged and performed by Echo Park group Batphone. With this addition, VGMdb is now the largest VGM album database on the internet. The milestone occurred, coincidentally, six months to the day after VGMdb opened for public beta.
And the person who submitted the album? None other than Larry Oji himself.
The comparison to J.G.M.L. is a bit unfair, since VGMdb’s scope is much wider; J.G.M.L.’s focus is mainly on official, Japanese-released soundtracks and arrangement albums, while VGMdb also has many Western albums, fan arrangement albums, original works by VGM composers, game-related anime soundtracks, and so on. As such, there are still quite a few albums listed on J.G.M.L. that VGMdb does not contain.
Still, it was an exciting milestone to break, and there is still a wealth of unlisted albums remaining to be added, as well as other features and site improvements. Here’s to 10,000!